Court releases more sexually explicit texts of ex-Detroit mayor Cour
DETROIT (AP) — A court on Thursday released more sexually explicit text messages between the city’s former mayor and his ex-chief of staff, just days before Kwame Kilpatrick goes to jail for lying about their affair.
Former aide Christine Beatty, who is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, had tried to keep them sealed. But a Wayne County judge ordered them on the public record, and the Michigan Court of Appeals refused to stop him.
A series from November 2003 goes on for more than an hour as Beatty describes what she would do with Kilpatrick if they were together.
“Don’t STOP! PLEASE,” he replies.
Prosecutors filed hundreds of messages to show that Kilpatrick and Beatty sent and received them on city pagers. They were attached to a court filing that had been sealed for months.
“Wouldn’t the mayor of a major American city complain to someone if he was receiving these types of messages by accident?” Wayne County assistant prosecutor Robert Moran wrote.
Besides communications with Beatty, the messages reveal contact between Kilpatrick and other women who are not identified in the court filing. The pager seems always at hand, even at a sporting event, when he sent texts to a woman at the same game.
Politicians are mentioned, too.
“John Kerry dissed me. I’m trippin!” Kilpatrick wrote to someone in May 2003, referring to the Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president. There is no elaboration.
The messages are just a portion of the thousands prosecutors have. But they help form the case against Beatty, who is facing criminal charges over her testimony in a civil trial last year.
She and her boss denied an affair while testifying at the trial, which involved former police officers who claimed Kilpatrick retaliated against them.
But text messages published in January by the Detroit Free Press revealed a steamy relationship and sparked eight months of political turmoil at city hall.
Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice on Sept. 4 and is scheduled to go to jail Tuesday. Beatty has turned down offers to plead guilty and is headed for trial early next year.
Prosecutors supported the release of the messages, but Beatty’s lawyers said the contents could turn potential jurors against her.
While riding in a car in November 2003, Kilpatrick wrote: “I will look you in the eye and tell you how mch I love you. Just before I kiss softly down the back of your neck and spine. Then ...”
Beatty that same year calls Kilpatrick “the Love of my Life” in one message. But by March 2004, the texts suggested things were cooling off.
“What do you get from CEK that you don’t get from me?” she asked, referring to Kilpatrick’s wife, Carlita.
“The tremendous bond of Parenthood. J,J & J’s Mama. The Birth Experiences and the Dreams for our children,” Kilpatrick replied, using his sons’ initials.
In January, after the Free Press broke the text-message scandal, Kilpatrick said messages published by the newspaper reflected a “very difficult period in my personal life.”